Marine Protected Area · usa
Cape Cod Bay Ocean Sanctuary
- Area
- 1 509 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1971
Overview
- Designation
- Marine Protected Area
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1971
- Managing authority
- State Department of Conservation
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
3 816 distinct species · 733 458 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Cape Cod Bay Ocean Sanctuary : 30 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology1 basins · 0 lakes · 11 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
3,0km
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
3 415km²
Discharge in basins
0,1m³/s
Mean precip.
1 172mm/an
Mean T°
9,9°C
Moisture idx
0,26
Max snow
11%
Mean runoff
795mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
16m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (11, ord ≥ 4)
- Herring Riverord 1len here1.52 km11%total14 km
- Town Brookord 2len here0.42 km6%total8 km
- Cape Cod Canalord 2len here0.39 km67%total1 km
- Bridge Creekord 1len here0.30 km12%total2 km
- Eel Riverord 2len here0.17 km2%total8 km
- Jones Riverord 2len here0.09 km1%total10 km
- Scorton Creekord 1len here0.07 km5%total1 km
- Eel Creekord 1len here0.03 km1%total3 km
- Mill Creekord 1len here0.02 km1%total3 km
- Little Wood Island Riverord 1len here0.02 km1%total1 km
- Beaver Dam Brookord 2len here≈ tangenttotal3 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 41.89701, -70.30762
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.